‘Night Has Come’ Review: A Haunting Portrait of End Times Told Through Stock Footage [Fantastic Fest 2019]
Posted on Friday, September 20th, 2019 by Chris Evangelista
If Terrence Malick and Franz Kafka decided to get married, and then adopted an old wooden crate full of reels of stock footage as their baby, that offspring would look something like Night Has Come. Director Peter Van Goethem has cut together a plethora of Royal Belgian Film Archive stock footage to tell the story of a dystopian society plagued with a memory-erasing virus. Making use of overly poetic, often vague narration, Night Has Come unfolds like a memory of a fever dream, burning its way through your brain as you drift in and out of consciousness.
